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A view looking past a digital display screen towards the doors of an indoor theater, with

From the Film Registry: “Hospital” (1970)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

Frederick Wiseman’s powerful documentary “Hospital,” added to the Library’s National Registry in 1994, is recalled here by film professor Barry Keith Grant. Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has said that he is interested in how the institutions he films are “cultural spoors” that reflect the larger cultural hues,” and “Hospital,” his fourth documentary, is a perfect example …